Today, many fashion houses offer attires supposedly made of 'muslin' fabric, so they say. Here, they are referring to muslin more as a common noun indicating a fine cloth. Muslin was incredibly fine ...

History and stories are woven together with fibre and feather in Toi Maori - The Eternal Thread: Te Aho Mutunga Kore – The Changing Art of Maori Weaving which goes on display 25 February in the Maori ...

This article by Aishwarya Baidar was first published in The Record (Nepal); an edited version is republished below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. Shaded from the scorching ...

Pathorichuck village, a weaving hub in Assam’s north Lakhimpur, is humming. Women are busy making stoles and scarves with indigenous Mising diamond patterns known as ghai-yamik. Each woman has a big ...